OpenAI’s long-promised parental controls for ChatGPT have finally arrived — and they come bundled with granular settings, safety alerts, and a direct link into OpenAI’s newly launched short‑video app, Sora. The move is a clear response to growing scrutiny over how conversational AI interacts...
OpenAI’s decision to add parental controls to ChatGPT this fall marks a consequential shift in how families, schools, and regulators will manage students’ interactions with generative AI—an acknowledgement that technical safeguards alone have not prevented harm and that human-centered...
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OpenAI’s plan to add parental oversight features to ChatGPT is the company’s most far‑reaching safety response yet to concerns about young people using conversational AI as an emotional crutch — a shift that pairs technical changes (stronger content filters, crisis detection and one‑click...
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I have a 15 year old son. He was on his laptop as an administrator but was accessing websites that were not allowed. I went in and added myself as an administrator and then changed his account to "standard user" so that I could then set the parental controls. Apparently, however, he was able...